A Christmas Carol - Sentence Structure

Charles Dickens uses sentence structure to express the personality of his characters and their surroundings. He uses alliteration as well as parallelism and repetition to do so. Through alliteration, he describes the nature of Scrooge as, "secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster" (2). Another example of alliteration is when the author describes the "clear, cold" (20) and "bleak biting" (2)winter day. He applies parallelism to the story as well.  For instance, when Scrooge observed the" wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness" (67). This technique is used again when the author explains that Scrooge was "his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and his sole mourner" (1). In addition, Dickens uses repetition when he writes, "joys, and cares so long, long, forgotten" (20), and again when Scrooge says "'Of course they can. Of course they can'" (64).